Lily renee, escape artist: from holocaust survivor to comic book pioneer, paperback/trina robbins

In 1938, Lily Rene Wilhelm, a 14-year-old Jewish girl, is living in Vienna when the Nazis march into Austria.

After a ship voyage fraught with danger from Nazi torpedoes, teenage Lily reunites with her parents in New York.

One day she sees an ad in the paper: a comics publisher is looking for artists.